This Award recognises organisations whose work has furthered the contribution of the artistic arts to health and wellbeing. Dr. Ramirez holds quick to the unwavering ideals that brought him to schooling, including that social injustices can only be remedied by an educated populous, that an educated mind is a mind called into motion for the betterment of all human kind, and that by means of educating our future generations, our optimistic influence on the world will continue long after we expire.

In November 2015 the NSW Minister for Well being introduced a Taskforce on Health and The Arts​ to offer recommendation on find out how to both encourage and better integrate The Arts into healthcare companies, activities and amenities across the entire of NSW Health.

Previous to her present appointment, she was the 2010 – 2015 Presidential Analysis Fellow at the College of Iowa, with joint appointments as a teaching assistant/medical supervisor for their music therapy division and research assistant on the Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Analysis Middle.

In 2015 we supported a neighborhood primarily based dance challenge that was based mostly in Shankill, Dundrum and Dún Laoghaire and faciltied by Dance Theatre of Ireland The undertaking was independently evaluated by Trinity College and measured and recorded the health and nicely-being advantages of dance for older folks.

The researcher has performed many service person evaluations, workshops, therapy classes and different actions across the arts, well being and nicely-being spectrum, and in all instances has gathered suggestions and analysis as to the effectiveness of the humanities programmes offered.